London Climate Resilience Finance Summit 2025
Glazier's Hall, 9 Montague Close, London SE1 9DD
About this Event
Positioned at a pivotal moment in the climate finance agenda, the 2025 Climate Resilience Finance Summit will shape strategies for mobilising the US$1.3 trillion resilience finance goal set at COP29.
Financing climate resilience has become a global priority as climate change impacts intensify and become more frequent. Governments, businesses and financial institutions must act, yet many challenges remain: coordinating diverse stakeholders, addressing acute needs in vulnerable regions, and balancing financial risks with investment opportunities.
London Climate Action Week has become a key platform for climate finance discussions. In 2025, the inaugural Climate Resilience Finance Summit will convene high-level leaders to drive action, aligning with global milestones such as the UN’s Finance for Development Conference and COP30.
This one-day summit will meet the critical unmet need for radically scaled-up finance for resilience through:
* Driving greater focus on finance for climate resilience through all parts of the finance ecosystem
* Building shared understanding and commitment around global needs and solutions, and
* Presenting London domestic and international leadership on climate-resilience finance.
The summit will feature:
* High-level plenaries with voices from the UK and across the globe
* ‘Challenge’ sessions that will engage the different experiences in the room around problem solving different issues
* Participation from a wide range of organisations in the climate resilience finance ecosystem, including the Majority World.
Insurers, development agencies and governments from the most at-risk and impacted countries have repeatedly highlighted that climate-resilience finance – in terms of scale, access and quality – must rapidly gain the same attention as finance for renewables and be embedded with plans for economic or business growth.
This summit will bring together the outcomes from the collective thinking and day’s sessions to inform communication that will be issued at the end of the event.
International Institute for Environment and Development
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has been a global leader in sustainable development research since 1971. We have been at the helm of paradigm-shifting policy processes on environment and development, including forging the concept of ‘sustainable development’ in the 1970s; initiating the concept of 'green economy' in the 1980s; leading the development of participatory learning and action in the 1990s; amplifying climate change adaptation in global climate negotiations in the 2000s; and devising an architecture for devolved climate finance in the 2010s.
IIED has played a key role in restructuring climate and nature debt and climate finance; centring loss and damage in climate debates; creating risk responsive social protection; and reforming international treaties that protect fossil fuel investments. We are hosting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chair, Professor Jim Skea, which creates the opportunity to bridge the climate scientists recording and predicting the trajectory of the climate emergency and the communities suffering its impacts.
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